Best Death Guard detachments 11th edition · ranked by winning lists
Every Death Guard detachment, ranked by how many winning Death Guard lists played it, with what its rules do in our own words and the units it lifts most. Too few lists to judge: 2 winning Death Guard lists, August – September 2026, so the order is a hint, not a verdict.
A winning list here is one that finished in the top quarter of its event. An army can take up to three detachments, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Not in a winning list yet
No winning Death Guard list in this window names these, so they aren't ranked. What each does, in our words:
- Champions of Contagion · Manifold Maladies: swaps army plague (army rule). 4 enhancements
- Contagion Engines · Warped and Rusted Animus: keywords; shooting on the move. 2 enhancements
- Death Lord's Chosen · Deadly Vectors: mortal wounds in Command phase. 4 enhancements
- Flyblown Host · Verminous Haze: deployment. 2 enhancements
- Mortarion's Hammer · Miasmic Bombardment: applies Afflicted status. 4 enhancements
- Paragons of Putrescence · Hypervirulent Strains: aura range. 2 enhancements
- Shamblerot Vectorium · Numberless Horde: reinforcements and keywords. 4 enhancements
- Tallyband Summoners · Reverberant Rancidity: aura range and army rule. 4 enhancements
- Virulent Vectorium · Worldblight: objectives and Afflicted status. 4 enhancements